In a particularly unusual incident at a high school in St. Augustine, a student fell off an elevated walkway two stories above the ground on January 24th. The incident, which took place at Pedro Menendez High School in St. Johns County south of Jacksonville, occurred when the student somehow fell over the walkway railing and…
In a fairly rare occurrence involving a motorist that crashed into a state trooper who had pulled over another motorist, an FHP patrol car who had pulled over a speeding motorist was hit from behind by a driver that lost control of his vehicle in a rainstorm on New Year’s Day. According to a report…
The attorneys of Schwed, Adams & McGinley are excited to announce the elevation of attorneys Juan Asconape and Michael Peckham to partners of the firm. Michael and Juan have both been with the firm for more than a decade. During that time, each of the two has represented thousands of individuals in obtaining maximum recovery…
In DeLand in central Florida, three people were killed recently when a wrong way driver at 2:20 a.m. ran into a car head-on and then fled his car on foot. The hit-and-run driver, who was in a pick-up truck, ran into a car with four people in it, three of whom were killed. The fourth,…
A Tesla owner from Plant City near Tampa recently filed suit in New York against a Tesla dealership in connection with an accident involving her Tesla’s computer systems malfunctioning. According to a report, regarding her lawsuit, she was involved in an accident in March 2022 in which her Tesla’s computer froze up and she was…
In an absolutely horrific tragedy that took place on New Year’s Eve, one teen was killed and three were critically injured in a wreck that took place at 10:48 p.m. on I-75 near Gainesville. According to a report regarding the crash, a car with four teens in it was speeding when the 17-year-old driver lost…
The national automobile safety advocacy group Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety recently released its 19th annual Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws, a report rating all fifty states for the effectiveness of their traffic safety laws. Perhaps unsurprisingly for many Floridians, Florida was only one of eleven states that were rated as a “danger”…
An accident between a semi-truck and a train in rural Hendry County in central Florida occurred early on a recent Monday morning and resulted not only in the death of the truck driver but also in the closure of a major road in both directions. According to a report from a local media outlet, the…
Right before Thanksgiving, a van carrying a college cross-country team from Oregon was involved in a serious, multi-vehicle accident on I-75 in southern Alachua County. Ten people were ultimately injured and had to be hospitalized as a result of those injuries from the crash. An article from local news affiliate WCJB regarding the crash reported…
A recent electric scooter accident in Tampa in which a child was killed reflects the danger of these vehicles, particularly when the scooter’s operator is not following the law or, even worse yet, is impaired while operating the scooter. According to an update on this accident from accident investigators, a 37-year-old man and a 10-year-old…
